From: Miod Vallat (miodonline.fr)
Date: Fri May 19 2006 - 14:08:11 CDT

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> I'm trying to do a 3.9 diskless boot of a Sun Netra T1 AC200 from an OpenBSD
> 3.8 i386 server. I have followed through diskless(8) and am able to boot
> bsd.rd from the server. Trying to boot bsd (using 'boot net') fails towards
> the end of loading the kernel:
[...]
> I realized that I hadn't set up /dev on my netboot root filesystem so went
> back to the server to execute './MAKEDEV all' but hit errors; perhaps
> because of trying to run MAKEDEV from i386 to create devices for sparc64?:

You need to either use a 3.8 sparc64 MAKEDEV, or use a more recent sh on
your server - recent MAKEDEV relies on improvements which were not in
3.8.

Or you could netboot bsd.rd, get a shell, mount the nfs filesystem, and
run the sparc64 MAKEDEV there.

Miod

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